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A lifeboat is a small boat kept on a ship, ready to be used if the ship is in danger, so people can escape safely. You also see lifeboats at beaches, ready for rescues at sea.
救生艇
組成Life + boat — a boat for saving your life.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lifeboatnoun/ˈlaɪfˌbəʊt/
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nauticaltransportA boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship).
- I've got a watch that turns into a lifeboat
- In a corner of the churchyard, where old headstones mark the graves of many mariners, is a striking white statue of a lifeboatman, erected as a memorial to three members of the local lifeboat crew who lost their lives in 1916 while trying to reach a ship in distress.
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literaturemediapublishingAn emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship.
lifeboatverb/ˈlaɪfˌbəʊt/
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To rescue; to carry to safety
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。